Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packing-House Workers, 1894-1922 - Couverture souple

Barrett, James R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252061365 ISBN 13 : 9780252061363

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2002

Synopsis

Mythologized by Upton Sinclair as hopeless, Chicago's packinghouse workers were in fact active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial America. James R. Barrett's award-winning study explores how the lives and neighborhoods of packinghouse workers convey the experience of mass production work, the quality of working class life, the process of class formation and fragmentation, the effects of unionization, and the changing character of class relations. Merging history and analysis with contemporary social surveys and a computer-assisted analysis of census data, Barrett delves into a wide range of social, economic, and cultural factors that resulted in class cohesion and fragmentation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James R. Barrett is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism and The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252061365
• ISBN 13: 9780252061363
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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